Dr. Harris completed his MD training at Texas A&M University & his Family Medicine residency at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Practice & is a member of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Harris practiced Family Medicine in the Aberdeen, Washington area for 14 years prior to moving to Olympia, Washington in 2004. He has a special interest in the full spectrum of the human condition from urologic concerns to migraine headache; newborn care to urgent care issues; or from allergies to chronic pain.
His philosophy of treating patients includes listening to the complete details to most clearly define a patient's problem(s); & then offering a spectrum of treatment options that most closely fit the patient's comfort level.

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Dr. Harris completed his MD training at Texas A&M University & his Family Medicine residency at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Practice & is a member of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Harris practiced Family Medicine in the Aberdeen, Washington area for 14 years prior to moving to Olympia, Washington in 2004. He has a special interest in the full spectrum of the human condition from urologic concerns to migraine headache; newborn care to urgent care issues; or from allergies to chronic pain.
His philosophy of treating patients includes listening to the complete details to most clearly define a patient's problem(s); & then offering a spectrum of treatment options that most closely fit the patient's comfort level.

You may need to investigate the real cause of your blurry vision. For instance, if you have a new-onset diabetes, your vision may continue to be blurry until you fix a blood sugar problem. Although it would be extreme, a glaucoma or other specific eye diagnosis may cause blurry vision. See you Family Doc for an exam to include bloodwork.
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If you have a bulging disk that is pressing on a nerve down your left leg, it is possible that this same process could extend around to the other side and that it is now doing the same thing on the right side.

See your Family Doc and have an exam, to possibly include MRI looking at your lumbar disks and nerves.

If your symptoms are truly ongoing for 2 months, it is worth a look. Draw blood for infection, thyroid, or metabolic imbalance (CBC, CMP, TSH for starters). If those are clear, then treat for acid irritation; look with imaging for direct structural or other type of intrusion.
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I wouldn't necessarily say that your GABA receptors need to "heal" as much as they simply may need to get out of the Lunesta tolerance.

Because you have been on the medication for several years, it may take several monthly to finally ease your neurons out of the desire to have that stimulation. In the meantime, you can simply wait or use an alternate med for sleep (like melatonin).
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Hopefully, the injection that has been put into your knee was a steroid.

Just sucking out the fluid is a band-aid -- the needle tip has to be unmoving and the steroid shot exactly into the same bursa space. If that has been done -- all with no trouble detected on testing -- then wrap it, take Motrin, and stay off your knees (kneeling-style).
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Normally, Buspar is started at 7.5mg twice daily; after a month, dose is increased to therapeutic 15mg twice daily dosing.

If there is not an adequate response, then the dose can be increased to 30mg twice daily.
You may feel funny after you take Buspar; you just took the usual 15mg/day starting dose -- should be no problem.
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The signs of infection are redness, heat, pain, swelling, and drainage.

If you have one or more of these, you may need antibiotics. If it is tiny, that may be a folliculitis (like an infected pimple). If it is larger, it may be a cellulitis, especially if you spent some time on your knees, as in gardening or kneeling on tile.
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